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Sweet Corn Soup Recipe With Ginger, Turmeric and Chilli. Copyright 2020 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Gently Spiced Sweet Corn Soup Recipe With Ginger, Turmeric and Chilli Oil

This sweet corn soup recipe with ginger, garlic, turmeric, and chilli oil is a gently-spiced, perfumed Southeast Asian-style soup made for the summer corn season. This quarantine cooking dish was partly inspired by Chinese egg drop soup and partly by the Southeast Asian ingredients of ginger, garlic, turmeric, and galangal that we love so much.

If you’re still staying at home and quarantine cooking – that is, using ingredients that make several dishes or stretching out components of dishes over multiple meals to extend the time between stressful shopping trips – then please add this sweet corn soup recipe with ginger, garlic, turmeric, and chilli oil to your recipe list.

We’re into our third month of quarantine cooking and we’ve got it down to an art. We’re working our way through a list of cooking projects, including baking sourdough and sourdough starter discard recipes, having fun with Cambodian-Australian flavoured meat pies and sausage rolls, testing traditional Cambodian soups and stews and barbecue recipes, and researching, writing and testing recipes for our Cambodian culinary history and cookbook project.

This sweet corn soup recipe with ginger, garlic, turmeric, and chilli oil was made with the last of the sweet summer corn cobs I bought earlier this week. First I made grilled corn on the cob with lime butter and lemongrass mayonnaise, then this grilled corn salad with lime, chilli, lemongrass mayo and sourdough croutons.

Now let’s tell you all about Terence’s sweet corn soup recipe with ginger, garlic, turmeric, and chilli oil.

Sweet Corn Soup Recipe With Ginger, Turmeric and Chilli Oil

Aside from our beautiful sweet corn cobs, one of Terence’s inspirations for this sweet corn soup recipe with ginger, garlic, turmeric, and chilli oil were the contents of our fridge – fresh ginger, galangal and turmeric we had sitting in the vegetable crisper, as well as the last of the chilli oil Terence made a few months ago that he wanted to use so he could make another batch.

Another inspiration were the Chinese corn soups we ate at Chinese restaurants in Australia in the 1970s, which typically featured sweet corn soups. As Australians, living in a country with a long, rich multicultural history, especially an Asian history, we’ve been eating Asian food for most of our lives.

While my family only started cooking with Asian ingredients in the 1970s, and Terence and I began making Asian food – main Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, and Malay – after we moved in together in the mid-1980s, Australians have been growing and cooking Asian ingredients for over 200 years.

Ginger, for instance, which we’ve used in this sweet corn soup recipe, arrived on the First Fleet in 1778. Colonial Australians were also using chillies, fresh, dried, in vinegar, and as a condiment. Six chilli varieties were grown in Sydney in the 1820s. As a newspaper ad in 1825 attests, Sydney’s warehouses and shops stocked “fish sauce, mustard, currie powder, cayenne pepper – spices of all kinds, and ginger…”

Chinese migrants arrived in Australia in the 1800s to work as labourers, farmers and miners, with most coming for the Gold Rush, which boomed in 1851. Many ended up starting market gardens and working as cooks, kitchen hands and hawkers who sold door-to-door. I

t was therefore no surprise that Australia’s first Asian restaurant was a Chinese restaurant called John Alloo’s, opened by Chim Thum Lok in 1853 in the gold mining town of Ballarat, which served both Chinese and European food.

By 1890, a third of all working cooks in Australia were Chinese, running modest ‘cook-shops’, where they’d serve humble meals. Most came from Guangdong, which explains how Cantonese food, including sweet corn soup recipes, came to dominate Chinese cooking in Australia.

During the early 20th century, Chinese restaurants were popping up in almost every Australian suburb and rural town. By 1928, a story in the Melbourne Argus newspaper attests that ‘dim sims’ – a Chinese pork mince dumpling with water chestnuts – were a popular fast food.

And by the 1940s, Chinese restaurants in Sydney’s Chinatown were flourishing, with diners including a mix of Australians, not only of Chinese heritage.

By the time we were growing up in the 1970s, it was very normal for Australians to go out for dinner at their local Chinese restaurant and to cook Chinese meals at home. The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine regularly featured Chinese favourites, everything from fried rice to sweet corn soup recipes.

In Sydney, my family went out for Chinese most Friday nights and that the spread of food Dad and Mum ordered always including a sweet corn and crab soup – and the meal always ended with bowls of fried ice cream. Terence prefers the Chinese egg drop soup to the corn and crab.

The Chinese egg drop soup is a simple comforting corn and chicken soup with spring onions and egg, and occasionally fresh ginger, particularly if it’s being made at home for someone who is sick.

While that soup was one of Terence’s inspirations for this sweet corn soup recipe with ginger, garlic, turmeric, and chilli oil, he skipped the egg as the soup is packed with plenty of flavour and texture. We’re sharing a separate Chinese egg drop soup recipe.

No other notes are needed for this sweet corn recipe as it’s super simple and very straightforward, as you can see, but do let us know if you have any questions in the comments below. Click through for Terence’s chilli oil recipe.

Sweet Corn Soup Recipe With Ginger, Turmeric and Chilli Oil

Sweet Corn Soup Recipe With Ginger, Turmeric and Chilli. Copyright 2020 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Sweet Corn Soup Recipe with Ginger, Garlic, Turmeric, and Chilli Oil

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This sweet corn soup recipe with ginger, garlic, turmeric, and chilli oil is a sweet, perfumed, gently-spiced Southeast Asian-style soup made for the summer corn season that was partly inspired by Chinese egg drop soup and partly by the Southeast Asian ingredients of ginger, garlic, turmeric, and galangal we love so much.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Course: Soup
Cuisine: Australian/Chinese
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 1045kcal
Author: Lara Dunston

Ingredients

  • 60 g brown onion sliced finely
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 clove garlic crushed
  • 10 g fresh ginger cut into matchsticks
  • 10 g galangal finely chopped
  • 10 g turmeric finely chopped
  • 2 bird’s eye chillis seeds removed, finely chopped
  • 400 g BBQ grilled corn kernels
  • 1 l chicken stock
  • 2 green onions scallions, green and white pieces separated and chopped finely
  • 1 tbsp chilli oil optional
  • 1 tbsp deep-fried shallots optional

Instructions

  • Heat the vegetable oil in a large soup pot.
  • Add the brown onion, ginger, galangal, turmeric, and corn and stir until the onion is translucent.
  • Add the chillies and the garlic to the mixture, combine, and continue to fry.
  • Add the chicken stock to the pot, simmer for 20 minutes, then taste for seasoning, adding salt or pepper if you like.
  • Distribute between bowls and garnish with green onions and deep fried shallots, and drizzle with chilli oil.

Nutrition

Calories: 1045kcal | Carbohydrates: 134g | Protein: 39g | Fat: 46g | Saturated Fat: 17g | Cholesterol: 30mg | Sodium: 2195mg | Potassium: 2340mg | Fiber: 13g | Sugar: 37g | Vitamin A: 1276IU | Vitamin C: 150mg | Calcium: 108mg | Iron: 10mg

Do let us know if you make our sweet corn soup recipe with ginger, garlic, turmeric, and chilli oil as we’d love to know how it turns out for you.

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About Lara Dunston

A travel and food writer who has experienced over 70 countries and written for The Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Feast, Delicious, National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia, DestinAsian, TIME, CNN, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, AFAR, Wanderlust, International Traveller, Get Lost, Four Seasons Magazine, Fah Thai, Sawasdee, and more, as well as authored more than 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK, Footprint, Rough Guides, Fodors, Thomas Cook, and AA Guides.

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  1. Kathy L says

    June 16, 2020 at 3:11 pm

    We made this with leftover corn from a BBQ. Turned out great. The Sichuan chilli oil we made from your recipe really went well with this (of course we did not serve the chilli oil to the kids!)
    We’ll put more corn on the BBQ every time we use it now!5 stars

  2. Lara Dunston says

    June 17, 2020 at 11:24 am

    Hi Kathy, that’s great to hear! Please do try the grilled corn salad as well and let us know what you think. Thanks for dropping by!

  3. deb young says

    July 13, 2022 at 10:34 pm

    I’m going to try the corn soup recipe today. But, I was so appreciative about your historical information and depth of knowledge. So interesting. I’ve signed up for the monthly email.
    Looking forward to it.

  4. Lara Dunston says

    July 13, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    Hello Deb, that’s great to hear! It’s been a while between newsletters, but it’s on my to-do list, so you should get one soon. We’d love to know what you think of the soup. Depending on what continent you’re on (whether it’s hot or cold where you are), we also have a recipe for a hearty corn chowder, which you’ll find on the home page. Thank you so much for taking the time to drop by and leave a comment :)

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My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

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Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

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Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

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The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

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